Found 34,192 results for "Slavery"
by Booker T. Washington
I was born a slave on a plantation in Franklin County, Virginia.
by John Hope Franklin, Alfred A. Moss Jr.
By the end of the twentieth century, it became commonplace for African Americans to speak and write sensitively of the l...
by Eric Eustace Williams
WHEN IN 1492 COLUMBUS, representing the Spanish monarchy, discovered the New World, he set in train the long and bitter ...
by Stanley M. Elkins, Stanley M Elkins
by Milton Meltzer
It might come as a shock to some readers to learn that a number of historians consider slavery a step forward in the dev...
by David M. Oshinsky, David M. Oshinsky
In the tumultuous summer of 1861, a Mississippi planter named William Nugent rode off to war with a regiment from Vicksb...
by Wood, Betty., Betty Wood
The adoption of chattel slavery by the English in their New World colonies had no clear precedent in either English law ...
by David Brion Davis
AMERICANS have often been embarrassed when reminded that the Declaration of Independence was written by a slaveholder an...